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J. B.. PUGH.

GAR GOUPLING.

N0.`262,980. Patented Aug. 22, 1882...

I ,L E] GP32-00.66 Kliff 'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE B. PUGH, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES O. BROWNING, OF SAME PLAGE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,980, dated August 22, 1882` Application filed April 20, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JESSE B.PUGH, of Indianapolis, Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Car-Couplers, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in the several tigures of which like letters representlike parts.

My invention belongs to that class of de-4 vices known as ear-couplers7 and which look automatically, and which may be unlocked from either side of the car without going in between them, thus avoiding peril to the brakeman.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of my device as attached to the end of a our. Fig. 2 is an end view ot1 the draw-head. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4c is a top View. Y

In the drawings, A is the draw-head, to the bottom of which and on the inside is attached a spring, O. The top of the draw-head is slotted, and in thisslot apin-bar, B, plays, f1tting squarely upon the cross-bar F, as shown in Fig. 3 at E. The end ot' the pin-barB is recessed, and a pin, D, is inserted to swing ,loosely therein on a pivot, G.

The cross-bar F, which passes through the draw-head A, is squared at either end, and upon these ends, or either of them, a rod or lever is fitted, as at the loose jointj', Fig. 4, and the end of this rod or lever is squared to receive a hand wheel or crank, by which it may be turned. By this means the device may be operated from either side ofthe car and at dit'- i'erent angles, and when the draw-head is pushed back the cross-bar F may pass clear under the end ofthe car.

lhe curved end of the pin D may be used as a handle to lift up the pn-bar whenever necessary. K f

My device operates as follows: It the link be in the draw-head of the car approaching, it

will, when it enters the draw-head A, strike the pin D, which will swing backward, and when the link has passed in far enough will return to its place, falling within the link, thus locking it automatically. To unlock it or uncouple the car the brakeman only need turn the wheel H. This raises the pin-bar B and pin D, and the link may be withdrawn. So, too, it the link be in the draw-bead,4 and the draw-head of the approaching car require it, the link may be raised or lowered vto tit by means ofthe crank and cross-bar F. The pinbar B may be Vlifted up by hand and thrown back out of the way, when desired,the spring O holding it as well in that position as in any such other, as the pin-bar is so constructed that it rests upon the link when the latter is in place.

What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the slotted draw-head A, having an interior spring, C, the pin D, loosely pivoted in the recessed pin-bar E, and the pin-bar E, secured to the cross-bar F, by which it is operated, substantially as described.

2. In a car-coupler, a draw-head slotted on the upper side, wherein a bar carrying a loose ly-pivoted pin at one end is supported by a spring, the pin-bar resting-upon the couplinglink when in place, and serving to raise or lower such link when actuated by a shaft or lever passing through the pin-bar and drawhead and extended across the width ot' the car for unlocking the coupler from either side, substantially as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set niy hand this 17th day ot April,.,1882.

JESSE B. PUGH.

Witnesses:

0.1?. JAcoBs, CHARLES 0. BRoWNINe. 

